What Is The Most Depressing Song You've Ever Heard?

The most depressing song I've ever heard is "Streets Of Philadelphia" by Bruce Springsteen. It's a slow, dreary song about a guy with AIDS dying on the streets of Philly. Add that to the fact that the song came out and was big in 1993, the most depressing year of my life-then yeah, it's too sad of a song for me.

I love Country and Western music, but some of the songs are just so depressing. Tammy Wynnette's D.I.V.O.R.C.E is enough to make you want to go out and shoot yourself - I much prefer Billy Connolly's comic version. Then there's Honey, by Bobby Goldsboro. The premise of the song is depressing enough - a young woman dying before her time - but then you learn she was always crying anyway, so she probably drowned in her own tears.

It's not just country music that'e depressing, though. Old Shep by Elvis Presley is another downer - all about a dog getting shot in the head. Then there's Tears in Heaven, written by Eric Clapton following the death of his son.

The most depressing song for me, till date has to be Jason Walker's Down. Being a sad song, it has to be slow and emotional, but the lyrics - when he goes "I shot for the sky; I'm stuck on the ground; why do I try? I know I'm gonna fall down!" - kill me a little bit from the inside every time I hear it.

Several songs about departed love ones and being regretful type of songs sounds depressing for me. Those songs become depressing for me when a very important person in my life dies and evrything seems to be hard to accept.

The most depressing song that I've ever listened to is Emeli Sande's Read All About It. It's a very sad love song that describes two people who are forced to be apart. This song is so poignant and melancholic, read the lyrics below and you will know how I feel. I usually relate the song to homosexual couples and feel extremely sad after listening to it.

It's not more the song, it's the fact that this was the last thing a friend sent me moments before he committed suicide. The message he sent along with it was (paraphrasing), "everything is perfect right now, everything is beautiful"

Departure (an OST from the anime Rurouni Kenshin). The song is just an instrumental but every time I hear this song, I remember the last scene from the OVA (The Passing of Time Saga). The main character dies just after he goes home and it feels bittersweet because his wife had been waiting for him for a very long time. TT__TT

I think the most depressiong song is "till the end". It's a song from video game soundtracks. It's actually in two video games. Alundra and Legend of Legaia. And of course, it only played in times of sadness, death, or despair.